| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: intimately acquainted. To each of these men I expressed my
astonishment and I explained my doubts; I found that they
differed upon matters of detail alone; and that they mainly
attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country to
the separation of Church and State. I do not hesitate to affirm
that during my stay in America I did not meet with a single
individual, of the clergy or of the laity, who was not of the
same opinion upon this point.
This led me to examine more attentively than I had hitherto
done, the station which the American clergy occupy in political
society. I learned with surprise that they filled no public
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: proceed for Mistress Katrine Drummond, which was somewhat the case (no
great while back) with a certain Mr. David Balfour. Should not these
make a good match? Her first intromission in politics - but I must not
tell you that story, the authorities have decided you are to hear it
otherwise and from a livelier narrator. This new example is more
serious, however; and I am afraid I must alarm you with the
intelligence that she is now in prison."
I cried out.
"Yes," said he, "the little lady is in prison. But I would not have
you to despair. Unless you (with your friends and memorials) shall
procure my downfall, she is to suffer nothing."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: will be a lie.
TOILS AND PLEASURES
I MUST try to convey some notion of our life, of how the days
passed and what pleasure we took in them, of what there was
to do and how we set about doing it, in our mountain
hermitage. The house, after we had repaired the worst of the
damages, and filled in some of the doors and windows with
white cotton cloth, became a healthy and a pleasant dwelling-
place, always airy and dry, and haunted by the outdoor
perfumes of the glen. Within, it had the look of habitation,
the human look. You had only to go into the third room,
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